Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy Effective Date: May 31, 2026

Last Updated: August 26, 2026

This Privacy Policy explains what personal information may be collected, how it may be used, and what choices and rights you may have when you use BiFiles Community Stories, available at https://bifiles.com/stories/.

BiFiles Community Stories is part of the wider BiFiles Network. Other parts of the network, including BiFiles.com, BiFiles Forum, BiFiles Chat, and BiFiles Reviews, may use different technical systems, accounts, plugins, services, or privacy settings.

This Privacy Policy applies specifically to your use of BiFiles Community Stories unless another notice is clearly provided for a particular feature or service.

1. Who We Are

BiFiles Community Stories is operated as part of the BiFiles Network.

Website: https://bifiles.com/stories/

Privacy contact: contact@bifiles.com

If you have a question about how your personal data is handled, want to exercise a privacy right, or want information removed where applicable, you can contact us using the email address above.

2. Information We May Collect

We aim to collect only the information reasonably needed to operate, secure, moderate, and improve BiFiles Community Stories.

Information you provide

If you leave a comment, contact us, or otherwise submit information through the website, we may receive information that you voluntarily provide, such as:

  • Your name or display name
  • Your email address
  • Your comment or message content
  • Any other information you intentionally include in a submission

Technical information

When you visit the website, some technical information may be processed automatically by the website, hosting infrastructure, security systems, or related services. Depending on the systems in use, this may include:

  • Your IP address
  • Browser type and version
  • Device and operating system information
  • Pages or resources accessed
  • Date and time of access
  • Referring pages or basic request information
  • Server, security, or error logs

This information may be used to keep the website available, secure, stable, and functioning correctly.

3. Comments and Public Information

If comments are enabled, visitors may be able to leave responses on Community Stories posts.

When you submit a comment, the website may collect the information entered into the comment form together with technical information such as your IP address and browser user agent. This information may be used for comment administration, moderation, security, and spam prevention.

Your approved comment and chosen display name may become publicly visible. Your email address is not intended to be displayed publicly as part of the comment.

Because BiFiles Community Stories discusses bisexual identity, sexuality, relationships, coming out, attraction, and personal experiences, a comment may sometimes reveal sensitive information about you, including information relating to sexual orientation.

Please only share information in a public comment that you are comfortable making publicly visible. Avoid posting unnecessary personal details about yourself or other people.

You should not disclose another person’s sensitive personal information, sexual orientation, private communications, contact details, or other private information without an appropriate reason and permission.

We may review, approve, refuse, edit, hide, or remove comments where reasonably necessary for moderation, safety, spam prevention, legal compliance, or to protect the BiFiles Community Stories environment.

4. Sensitive and Special-Category Information

Some information shared on BiFiles Community Stories may concern personal identity, sexuality, relationships, or sexual orientation. Depending on applicable law, some of this information may receive additional legal protection as sensitive or special-category personal data.

We do not ask visitors to disclose more sensitive information than is necessary to participate. If you voluntarily publish sensitive information in a public comment, you should do so only after considering that the information may be visible to other internet users.

Where applicable law requires an additional legal condition for processing sensitive or special-category personal information, we will rely on an appropriate condition permitted by that law.

5. Cookies and Similar Technologies

BiFiles Community Stories may use cookies or similar technologies for website functionality, security, comment features, preferences, performance, and measurement.

Some cookies may be necessary for the website to function properly. Other cookies, including certain analytics or preference cookies, may depend on your consent where required by applicable law.

If a cookie banner or consent-management tool is displayed, you can use it to manage the available cookie preferences.

You can also control or delete cookies through your browser settings. Blocking some cookies may affect certain website functions.

6. How We Use Personal Information

Personal information may be used where reasonably necessary to:

  • Operate and maintain BiFiles Community Stories
  • Display, manage, and moderate comments
  • Respond to messages, questions, privacy requests, or support requests
  • Prevent spam, abuse, malicious activity, or misuse
  • Protect the security and integrity of the website and BiFiles Network
  • Troubleshoot technical problems
  • Improve website performance, accessibility, and user experience
  • Understand general website usage and performance
  • Comply with applicable legal obligations

We do not sell your personal data.

7. Legal Bases for Processing

Where data protection law requires a legal basis for processing personal data, the basis may depend on the information involved and the reason it is processed.

Depending on the circumstances, we may rely on:

  • Consent — for example, where you actively agree to optional cookies or voluntarily provide information in circumstances where consent is the appropriate legal basis.
  • Legitimate interests — including operating, protecting, securing, moderating, maintaining, and improving the website, provided those interests are not overridden by your rights and interests.
  • Legal obligations — where processing is necessary to comply with applicable law or a valid legal requirement.
  • Other lawful grounds — where another legal basis is available and appropriate under applicable data protection law.

Where information qualifies as sensitive or special-category personal data, an additional condition may be required under applicable law.

8. Service Providers and Sharing of Information

We may use trusted third-party service providers to help operate, host, protect, maintain, measure, or improve BiFiles Community Stories.

Depending on the services in use, these providers may include:

  • Website hosting providers
  • Security and firewall services
  • Spam-prevention and moderation services
  • Analytics or performance services
  • Website maintenance and technical service providers

These providers may process limited personal information where necessary to provide their services.

We may also disclose information where reasonably necessary to comply with applicable law, respond to valid legal requests, enforce rights, investigate abuse or security incidents, or protect the safety and integrity of BiFiles Community Stories, the BiFiles Network, its users, or others.

9. External Links and Other Parts of BiFiles

BiFiles Community Stories may link to other parts of the BiFiles Network and to independent third-party websites or resources.

When you follow a link to an external website, that website may collect or process information according to its own privacy policy and practices.

We do not control the privacy practices, security, availability, or content of independent third-party websites.

10. International Data Processing

Some hosting, security, analytics, technical, or other service providers may process information in countries different from the country where you live.

Where applicable data protection law requires safeguards for international transfers of personal data, appropriate legal mechanisms should be used by the relevant parties.

11. Data Retention

We aim to keep personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected, unless a longer period is required or permitted by applicable law.

Comments may remain published for as long as the relevant Community Story or discussion remains available unless the comment is removed by us or deleted following an appropriate request.

Information used for moderation, spam prevention, security, server logging, website maintenance, or troubleshooting may be retained for a limited period or for as long as reasonably necessary for those purposes.

Privacy or legal correspondence may be retained where reasonably necessary to document and respond to requests or comply with legal obligations.

12. Data Security

We take reasonable technical and organizational measures intended to protect personal information against unauthorized access, misuse, loss, alteration, disclosure, or destruction.

These measures may include website security tools, access controls, updates, backups, spam protection, moderation, and other technical safeguards.

However, no website, server, database, or online transmission can be guaranteed to be completely secure. You should therefore consider carefully what personal information you choose to publish online.

13. Your Privacy Rights

Depending on your location and the law that applies to you, you may have rights concerning your personal information.

These rights may include the right to:

  • Request access to personal data we hold about you
  • Request correction of inaccurate or incomplete personal data
  • Request deletion of personal data where applicable
  • Request restriction of certain processing
  • Object to certain processing based on legitimate interests
  • Withdraw consent where processing relies on your consent
  • Request portability of certain personal data where applicable
  • Ask for information about how your personal information is handled
  • Lodge a complaint with an appropriate data protection authority

These rights are not absolute and may depend on the circumstances and applicable law.

To make a privacy request, contact contact@bifiles.com. We may need enough information to understand your request and, where reasonably necessary, verify that the request concerns your data.

If you are located in the European Union or European Economic Area, you may also have the right to contact the data protection authority responsible for your location.

You can learn more about EU data protection rights through the European Commission data protection information.

14. Removing or Changing a Public Comment

If you have published a comment and later want us to review a request to remove or amend personal information contained in that comment, contact contact@bifiles.com.

Please provide enough information for us to locate the relevant comment, such as the display name used, the Community Story involved, and approximately when the comment was submitted. Do not send unnecessary sensitive information merely to identify the comment.

15. Children’s Privacy

BiFiles Community Stories is intended for adults aged 18 and older.

We do not knowingly seek to collect personal information from children through Community Stories.

If you believe that a person under 18 has submitted personal information through this website, please contact contact@bifiles.com so the situation can be reviewed and appropriate action can be taken.

16. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy when the website, its features, service providers, legal requirements, or privacy practices change.

When this Privacy Policy is updated, the latest version and its updated date will be published on this page.

We encourage you to review this page periodically so you can stay informed about how personal information is handled.

17. Contact About Privacy

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, want to exercise a privacy right, or want us to review a privacy concern, you can contact:

BiFiles Community Stories
Website: https://bifiles.com/stories/
Email: contact@bifiles.com